Lascaux & Lakota

The Swan Winter Count

On a short lunch and rest break from final preparations for painting (rooms not canvas), I'm wandering through some favourite blogs. I'm really excited by these two posts about early man's art and its reproduction, and unique record keeping by a first nations people:

Lascaux at Ionarts. I'm also envious that Charles Downey has personally seen the Spotted Horses in the cave of Pech Merle.

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"I'm also envious that Charles Downey has personally seen the Spotted Horses in the cave of Pech Merle." I got to see them too, back in 1978, on a family trip around Europe. If we'd known that all the major caves would soon be closed to the public, I guess we would've made more of an effort to see Lascaux and Altamira, as well. But the main focus of our trip was Medieval art & architecture along the pilgrim road to Santiago.

Oh, how fortunate that was for you! That trip sounds like to would be gerat story on your blog, Dave.

My past trips to Europe have been mostly to see family, art, and all the wonderful old architecture, mainly churches it seemed. In Italy, (no family there) we did see ruins and that seems to have started my passion for very ancient and weathered things, to come out in the Meta-morphosis series.